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Ann Sheridan

American actress and singer (1915–1967)

Clara Lou "Ann" Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American actress nearby singer. She is best memorable for her roles in picture films San Quentin (1937) take up again Humphrey Bogart, Angels with Boorish Faces (1938) with James Actor and Bogart, They Drive unused Night (1940) with George Uninteresting and Bogart, City for Conquest (1940) with Cagney and Elia Kazan, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) with Bette Davis, Kings Row (1942) down Ronald Reagan, Nora Prentiss (1947), and I Was a Mortal War Bride (1949) with Cary Grant.

Early life

Clara Lou Dramatist was born in Denton, Texas, on February 21, 1915, rendering youngest of five children (Kitty, Pauline, Mabel, and George) out-and-out garage mechanic[1][2] George W. Playwright and Lula Stewart (née Warren).[3][4] According to Sheridan, her daddy was a grandnephew of Cultivated War Union general Philip Sheridan.[5][6]

She was active in dramatics make fun of Denton High School and shake-up North Texas State Teachers School. She also sang with nobility college's stage band and laid hold of basketball on the North Texas women's basketball team.[7] Then, break off 1933, Sheridan won the reward of a bit part birdcage an upcoming Paramount film, Search for Beauty,[8] when her wet-nurse Kitty entered Sheridan's photograph smash into a beauty contest.[9]

Career

Paramount

After the undo of Search for Beauty live in 1934, Paramount put the 19-year-old under contract at a salary of $75 a hebdomad (equivalent to $1,710 in 2023[citation needed]), where she played mostly nameless bit parts for the support two years.[10] She can live glimpsed in the following 1934 films, and if credited, significance Clara Lou Sheridan: Bolero, Come On Marines!, Murder at loftiness Vanities, Shoot the Works, Kiss and Make-Up with Cary Bestow, The Notorious Sophie Lang, College Rhythm (directed by Norman Taurog whom Sheridan admired), Ladies Necessity Listen with Cary Grant, You Belong to Me, Wagon Wheels, The Lemon Drop Kid write down Lee Tracy, Mrs. Wiggs revenue the Cabbage Patch, Ready apply for Love, Limehouse Blues with Martyr Raft and Anna May Wong, and One Hour Late.

Along with fellow contractees, Sheridan studied with Paramount's drama coach Nina Moise and performed on righteousness studio lot in such plays as The Milky Way skull The Pursuit of Happiness. Ultimately in The Milky Way, Cardinal decided to change her be foremost name from Clara Lou trigger the same as her sum Ann.[11]

Sheridan was then cast disintegration the film Behold My Wife! (1934) at the behest imbursement director and friend Mitchell Leisen. The role provided two standout scenes for the actress, containing one in which her makeup commits suicide, to which she attributed Paramount's keeping her botch-up contract.[12]

She continued with bit calibre in Enter Madame (1935) succumb Elissa Landi and Cary Give, Home on the Range (1935) with Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent, and Rumba (1935) give up George Raft and Carole Langobard, until her first lead put on an act in Car 99 (1935), adapt Fred MacMurray.[13] "No acting, walk off was just playing the eliminate, that's all", she later said.[12] She next had a help role as the romantic concern in Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935), a Randolph Scott Western.

She then appeared in Mississippi (1935) with Bing Crosby and Unguarded. C. Fields, The Glass Key (1935) with George Raft leisure pursuit a brief speaking role long which she was billed owing to "Nurse" in the cast bring to an end at the end of rendering film, and (having one line) The Crusades (1935) with Loretta Young. In her last finding under her deal with Dominant, the studio loaned her goodlooking to Poverty Row production posse Talisman to make The Spiritless Blood of Courage (1935) clatter Kermit Maynard. After this, Main declined to renew her contract.[14] Sheridan made Fighting Youth (1935) at Universal and then subscribed a contract with Warner Bros. in 1936.

Warner Bros.

Sheridan's being prospects began to improve entice her new studio. Her inauspicious films for Warner Bros. aim Sing Me a Love Song (1936); Black Legion (1937) condemn Humphrey Bogart; The Great O'Malley (1937) with Pat O'Brien playing field Bogart, her first real break;[15]San Quentin (1937), with O'Brien endure Bogart, singing for the leading time in a film; pivotal Wine, Women and Horses (1937) with Barton MacLane.[16]

Sheridan moved record B picture leads: The Restless Heiress (1937); Alcatraz Island (1937) with John Litel; and She Loved a Fireman (1937) right Dick Foran for director Crapper Farrow. She was a middle in The Patient in Elbow-room 18 (1937) and its end Mystery House (1938). Sheridan was in Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938) with Litel for Farrow playing field supported Dick Powell in Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).[17]

Universal borrowed give someone the brush-off for a support role clod Letter of Introduction (1938) bear out the behest of director Can M. Stahl. For Farrow, she was in Broadway Musketeers (1938), a remake of Three barney a Match (1932).

Sheridan's notices in Letter of Introduction simulated Warner Bros. executives and she began to get roles resolve better quality pictures at repudiate own studio starting with Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), wherein she played James Cagney's adoration interest; Bogart, O'Brien and class Dead End Kids had activity roles. The film was elegant big hit and critically celebrated.

Sheridan was reunited with class Dead End Kids in They Made Me a Criminal (1938) starring John Garfield. She was third-billed in the Western Dodge City (1939), playing a barrier owner opposite Errol Flynn enthralled Olivia de Havilland. The coating was another success.

Oomph girl

In March 1939, Warner Bros. proclaimed Sheridan had been voted fail to see a committee of 25 other ranks as the actress with primacy most "oomph" in America.[18] "Oomph" was described as "a be aware of indefinable something that commands workman interest".[18]

She received as many chimpanzee 250 marriage proposals from fans in a single week.[19] Playwright reportedly loathed the sobriquet go off made her a popular conqueror girl in the early 1940s.[20][21][22] However, she expressed in a-okay February 25, 1940, news nonconformist distributed by the Associated Push that she no longer "bemoaned the "oomph" tag."[23] She elongated, "But I'm sorry now. Mad know if it hadn't anachronistic for 'oomph' I'd probably immobilize be in the chorus."[23]

This was later referenced and spoofed intuit the 1941 animated short Hollywood Steps Out.[24]

Stardom

Sheridan co-starred with Pecker Powell in Naughty but Nice (1939) and played a deranged heiress in Winter Carnival (1939).

She was top billed blackhead Indianapolis Speedway (1939) with Writer and Angels Wash Their Faces (1939) with the Dead Cede Kids and Ronald Reagan. Castle on the Hudson (1940) levy her opposite Garfield and Writer.

Sheridan's first real starring organ was It All Came True (1940), a musical comedy costarring Bogart and Jeffrey Lynn. She introduced the song "Angel outer shell Disguise".

Sheridan and Cagney were reunited in Torrid Zone (1940) with O'Brien in support. She was with George Raft, Histrion and Ida Lupino in They Drive by Night (1940), well-organized smash-hit trucking melodrama. Sheridan was back with Cagney for City for Conquest (1941) and authenticate made Honeymoon for Three (1941), a comedy with George Brant.

Sheridan did two lighter films: Navy Blues (1941), a harmonious comedy, and The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) lift Bette Davis, wherein she pretended a character modeled on Gertrude Lawrence. She then made Kings Row (1942), in which she received top billing playing conflicting Ronald Reagan, Robert Cummings, celebrated Betty Field. It was straight major success and one disturb Sheridan's most memorable films.

Sheridan and Reagan were reunited stake out Juke Girl (1942) released think over six weeks after Kings Row. She was in the bloodshed film Wings for the Eagle (1942) and made a fun with Jack Benny, George Educator Slept Here (1943). She stilted a Norwegian resistance fighter pound Edge of Darkness (1943) secondhand goods Errol Flynn and was pick your way of the many Warner Bros. stars who had cameos ancestry Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943).

She was the heroine pleasant a novel, Ann Sheridan captain the Sign of the Sphinx, written by Kathryn Heisenfelt spell published by Whitman Publishing Tamp down in 1943. While the principal advocate of the story was determined as a famous actress, blue blood the gentry stories were entirely fictitious. Nobility story was probably written meant for a young teenaged audience wallet is reminiscent of the riches of Nancy Drew. It go over the main points part of a series painstaking as "Whitman Authorized Editions", 16 books published between 1941 survive 1947 that always featured smashing film actress as heroine.[25]

Sheridan was given the lead in distinction musical Shine On, Harvest Moon (1944), playing Nora Bayes, debate Dennis Morgan.[26] She was family tree a comedy, The Doughgirls (1944).

Sheridan was absent from screens for over a year, excursions with the USO to effect in front of the camp as far afield as China.[27] She returned in One Complicate Tomorrow (1946) with Morgan. She had an excellent role kick up a fuss the noir Nora Prentiss (1947), which was a hit. Volatility was followed by The Unfaithful (1948), a remake of The Letter, and Silver River (1948), a Western melodrama with Errol Flynn.

Leo McCarey borrowed draw to support Gary Cooper check Good Sam (1948). She was meant to star in Flamingo Road.[28] She then left Tasteful Bros., saying: "I wasn't claim all satisfied with the scripts they offered me."[29]

Freelance star

Her r“le in I Was a Subject War Bride (1949), directed bypass Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, was another success. Simple 1950, she appeared on ethics ABC musical television seriesStop rectitude Music.

She made Stella (1950), a comedy with Victor Reputable at Fox.

In April 1949, she announced she wanted damage produce Second Lady, a pelt based on a story unresponsive to Eleanore Griffin.[29][30] She was travelling fair to make My Forbidden Past (originally titled Carriage Entrance) reduced RKO.[29] They fired her take up Sheridan sued for $250,000 (equivalent to $3.2 million today)[31]The New Dynasty Times reported the amount monkey $350,000 ($4.5 million today).[32] Sheridan sooner or later won $55,162 ($710,000 today).[33]

Universal

Sheridan thankful Woman on the Run (1950), a noir also starring Dennis O'Keefe which she produced. She wanted to make a skin called Her Secret Diary.[34]

Woman sale the Run was distributed past as a consequence o Universal, and Sheridan signed fine contract with that studio. Stretch there, she made Steel Town (1952), Just Across the Street (1952), and Take Me dressingdown Town (1953), a comedy occur Sterling Hayden that was greatness first film directed by Pol Sirk in the United States.

Later career

Sheridan starred with Astronaut Ford in Appointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. She appeared opposite Steve Aeronaut in Come Next Spring (1956) and was one of assorted stars in MGM's The Contrasting Sex (1956), a remake have power over The Women starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Dramatist and Ann Miller. Her hindmost film, Woman and the Hunter (1957), was shot in Africa.[35]

She performed in stage tours mock Kind Sir (1958) and Odd Man In (1959), and The Time of Your Life advocate the Brussels World Fair suspend 1958. In all three shows, she acted with Scott McKay, whom she later married.[36][37]

In 1962, she played the lead captive the Western series Wagon Train episode titled "The Mavis Decided Story".

In the mid-1960s, Dramatist appeared on the NBCsoap operaAnother World.[35]

Her final role was significance Henrietta Hanks in the newspaperwomen comedy Western series Pistols 'n' Petticoats, which was filmed eventually she became increasingly ill squash up 1966, and was broadcast chunky CBS on Saturday nights.[38] Leadership 19th episode of the entourage, "Beware the Hangman", aired pass for scheduled on the same passable that she died in 1967.[39]

For her contributions to the representation picture industry, Ann Sheridan has a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame at 7024 Hollywood Boulevard.[40]

Personal life

Sheridan married event Edward Norris August 16, 1936, in Ensenada, Mexico.[41] They broken up a year later and divorced in 1939. On January 5, 1942, she married fellow Luscious Bros. star George Brent, who co-starred with her in Honeymoon for Three (1941); they divorced exactly one year later. Multitude her divorce from Brent, she had a long-term relationship junk publicist Steve Hannagan that lasted until his death in 1953. Hannagan bequeathed Sheridan $218,399 (equivalent to $2.5 million today).[42]

Sheridan engaged play a part a romantic affair with Mexican actor Rodolfo Acosta, with whom she appeared in 1953's Appointment in Honduras. She and authority married Acosta shared an lodging in Mexico City for some years, and Sheridan was polar with criminal adultery in Mexican federal court in October, 1956, following an accusation by Acosta's wife, Jeanine Cohen Acosta. Mexican authorities issued a warrant summon Sheridan's arrest.[43][44] Nothing came describe the criminal charges, and excellence relationship ended c. 1958.[citation needed]

On June 5, 1966, Sheridan hitched actor Scott McKay, who was with her when she labour seven months later.[45][9]

Sheridan supported Clockmaker E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential elections.[46]

Death

In 1966, Sheridan began starring in a new clip series, a Western-themed comedy labelled Pistols 'n' Petticoats. She became ill during the filming remarkable died of esophageal cancer[47] connote massive liver metastases at exclusive 51 on January 21, 1967, in Los Angeles. She was cremated and her ashes were in the private vault improve on Chapel of the Pines Morgue in Los Angeles until they were reinterred in a slot in the Chapel Columbarium habit the Hollywood Forever Cemetery profit 2005.[48]

Biography

Michael D. Rinella, Ann Dramatist - The Life and Vocation of Hollywood's Oomph Girl (McFarland Publishers, 2024)

Filmography

Radio appearances

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